The painter and political cartoonist William Gropper was born in New York City, the son of East European immigrants who worked in the garment industry. A political radical who was sympathetic to communism (but was never a party member), Gropper contributed political cartoons in the interwar years to both radical and liberal newspapers and magazines. He painted in a representational style that employed cubism’s pronounced angularity. In the 1930s, he received government and business commissions for murals. In the wake of the Holocaust, he turned frequently to explicitly Jewish themes.
Early in his career, Enkaoua painted many landscapes, including a series of scenes of Israel. Many of his impressionistic landscapes seem to hover between abstraction and figurative art. In this one…
The street photographer Garry Winogrand said he was motivated by wanting “to see what the world looks like in photographs.” He didn’t regard his photos as identical with the reality of the scenes he…
Maurycy Gottlieb saw his art as essential to his universalist vision, namely, as a way to improve Polish-Jewish relations. As he said, “I am a Jew and a Pole and, God willing, I want to serve both.”…